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Subsidiary Rights Guide April 2010 Adult Titles

What happens when our prayers are answered? A dazzling novel of the miraculous…

It is strange and fascinating to me to think of people ― Avila in particular ― praying me into existence.

Sydney Peony Kent is nineteen years old. She was a longed-for IVF baby, ‘product of an unknown egg and unknown sperm’ implanted in her mother, Avila. Avila not only used the latest scientific techniques to conceive , but also prayed to the Bambinello, a small carved and jewelled statue of the infant Jesus housed in the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome and said to have miraculous properties.

Avila’s distant relative, Father Roland Bruccoli, was conceived in a more conventional manner, but his mother too prayed to the Bambinello before his birth ― and that of his twin sister Eleena. It is when the adult Roland is visiting the church of Santa Maria one Child of the evening that the Bambinello is stolen. Roland hopes that Father Cosimo, an archivist, Twilight poet and riddler said to speak in the ancient green language of the troubadours, can CARMEL BIRD assist in discovering what has happened to the Bambinello. But when matters of belief Fiction are involved, nothing is straightforward, as Sydney discovers herself when she too February 2010 becomes caught up in tracing the Bambinello’s fate. 9780732284541 210 x 135mm PB Deftly weaving together religion, science, pregnancies wanted and unwanted, love, loss 368pp and belief, Carmel Bird has created a luminous novel that both questions and celebrates Rights: World the miraculous.

Praise for Carmel Bird: 'a powerful and lyrical writer' The Bulletin 'one of 's finest storytellers' The Sydney Morning Herald

• For readers of Angela Carter, Fay Weldon, Sally Vickers

Carmel Bird is primarily a writer of fiction. Her first collection of short stories was published in 1983, since when she has published novels, essays, anthologies, and also books on how to write. She is one of Australia's best known and most respected writers, previously shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award.

A dazzling novel about writers and writing, love and loss ... the first adult novel from an multi-award-winning children’s writer

‘He’s the best writer,’ she said ... ‘The very best. I read everything he wrote. Everything.’ Charlie Bloome wants to be a writer. Twenty-three years old, he is studying literature and living with his gamine partner, Alice ―‘Lootie’ ― who plans to be a teacher and is less than supportive of Charlie’s dreams. Into their lives comes the flamboyant Sebastian Chanteleer, an ageing but internationally acclaimed children’s writer. Upon meeting, Lootie and Chanteleer establish an immediate bond. As the children’s writer makes his presence felt in the younger couple’s lives, Charlie struggles to come to terms with his own past and identity, and with what is happening to Lootie. Does Charlie have what it takes to be a writer? Does Chanteleer represent the best or worst a writer can be? The Children’s And what happens to those caught up in a writer’s world? Writer Gary Crew has crafted a compelling and superbly written study of passions and ambitions, GARY CREW and an insider’s look at the creative process and the foibles and delusions of those who Fiction practise it. September 2009 9780732285869 Gary Crew has written over fifty books for children and young adults and won many 210 x 135 mm PB awards both internationally and in Australia (including the Australian Children’s Book 384pp Council Book of the Year four times) and both the New South Wales and Victorian Rights: World Premier's Award for Children's Literature. He lives with his wife, Christine, on their property in Maleny in . Gary is Associate Professor (Creative Writing) at the University of the Sunshine Coast. She's just become the youngest, and most famous, First Lady of the United States …

Governor Marshall Avery is America’s most eligible bachelor, a millionaire businessman positioning himself to run for the highest office in the land. Marshall is smart enough and tough enough, but not quite warm enough for the job. He needs a wife who can soften his image, show his human side. Beth Wilford is all that, and more. Once her presence in his life becomes public, she becomes a magnet for journalists -- and a public -- hungry for a political romance. Young, beautiful, and with an impeccable political pedigree, Beth has the poise not to falter under the barrage of flashbulbs. But even Beth could not imagine that she would take an assassin’s bullet … Sharp, witty, insightful and unputdownable, The President's Wife is not only a suspenseful story of a public marriage and a telling account of political spin and manipulation, but an The President’s Wife examination of society’s obsession with ‘princesses’ -- those women like Diana, Jackie and THEA WELSH Evita, who exercise a deep fascination in the lives of millions. Fiction March 2010 • Dazzling, long-awaited new novel from award-winning author 9780732290122 • Compulsive from the very first page 234 x 153mm pb • Witty, gossipy, surprising -- and beautifully crafted to keep the pages turning 464pp • Will appeal to our ongoing fascination with 'behind the scenes' stories of celebrity life and Rights: World excl US, famous women's lives in particular -- enter the goldfish bowl Canada, Germany • Will appear to fans of The West Wing, Curtis Sittenfeld's American Wife, Joyce Carol Oates' Blonde

Thea Welsh is the author of the memoir The Cat Who Looked At The Sky (Flamingo 2003), and the novels Welcome Back ( 1999) and The Story Of The Year Of 1912 In The Village Of Elza Darzins , which won the 1990 National Book Council ‘Banjo’ Award. She lives in Sydney with her partner.

A stunning story of , of fathers and sons, and the power of memories …

Matti Finch is just a kid living with his aunt in the south of Ireland in the late 1980s. Life is hard, unemployment is high, and the Finch family’s circumstances are desperate. Matti talks to his mother every day, but he hasn’t seen his father Dave for six months. Dave’s been trying to face his family, but there are just too many demons. He can’t stop remembering how he and his brother Matthew escaped the troubles of Northern Ireland and made a new home down South. And how they both fell in love with the same woman …

For Matti and Dave, it won’t be easy finding a way back to each other. But even when it seems there’s nothing left to lose, hope is never far away …

Remember June • Author’s previous novel, One More Time, sold over 7000 copies (BookScan) -- a strong DAMIEN LEITH debut • Perennial popularity of Irish family stories -- think Frank McCourt Fiction • Author’s new album of the same name releases late 2009 – hear the song ‘Remember March 2010 June’ at www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/vs4cx2 9780732286828 210 x 153mm pb Praise for One More Time: 256pp ‘…a deceptively simple story with a nice twist at the end and deeper meanings that sink in Rights: World on reflection.' Times 'an entertaining yarn that’s well-written to boot’ NW Magazine. 'an absorbing first novel' Woman's Day

Damien Leith was born in Ireland and became an Australian citizen in January 2007. He is the winner of television’s 2006. Damien lives in Sydney with his wife and two sons. HarperCollins published Damien's first novel, One More Time , in 2007. A novel of love, ladders, and the unexpected …

Paula Sanchez is famous in Seville. She is not only mistress of an important bishop, but thanks to her work as an artist’s model, her image has appeared in many of the most famous paintings of the time.

Now she is sitting for Harman Weddesteeg, a Flemish artist visiting Seville. Paula, along with Father Rastro, the monk Victor Maria, and a horse, are all models for Harmen’s painting of the penitent Magdalen.

But Seville is a dangerous place, and the Inquisitor has his eye on what might be happening in the artist’s studio, to the disquiet of the young painter Velasquez, who slips through the streets on his own quest for love. Seville is also living through the aftermath A Woman of of the expulsion of the Moors, and the monastery contains a number of Morisco boys, Seville bent on escape. SALLY MUIRDEN Fiction Meanwhile, Paula has discovered the perfect way to slip away from the cares of life ― December 2009 by skipping from rooftop to rooftop with the ladder man, who visits the Sevillians’ 9780732290597 balconies each evening at dusk. Eventually Paula gains her own ladder, and is invited to 210 x 135mm PB the laddermen’s ball. 240pp Rights: World Sallie Muirden is a poet and novelist. Her first novel, Revelations of a Spanish Infanta, won the 1996 HarperCollins Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the New South Wales Literary Awards for Fiction. Her second novel, We Too Shall be Mothers, was published in 2001. Sallie lives in with her husband and two children.

He was our man in Peking. She was ... everybody's.

‘Cleverly constructed, this is to bodice ripping what Harvard is to Play School.’ Qantas: The Australian Way

George Ernest Morrison is ‘our man in Peking’ ― the London Times ’ correspondent in China. Born in Australia, Morrison has travelled widely, but now in his middle forties has settled into China. He is something of a hero ― wounded in the , and actually reported in the Times as dead ― and highly respected for his knowledge of China. It is time he married, but he has no time for fools or missionaries ― and besides, who would put up with him?

When he meets young Mae Perkins, a beautiful, vivacious American heiress, he is instantly smitten. But Mae is more worldly than many women of the time … and it is only with difficulty that Morrison understands the true nature of her free spirit. Meanwhile, war has broken out between Russia and Japan. At its start, this was called A Most Immoral ‘Morrison’s War’ because of his agitation for it through the columns of the Times . But as Woman the war has progressed, he finds access to it impossible. So near and yet so far, and so LINDA JAIVIN much information unconfirmed … Does he really understand the Chinese as well as he Fiction believes? Professionally and personally Morrison must work hard to get what he wants March 2009 … but like the Chinese proverb about interesting times, nothing is ever as he expects … 9780732282769 234 x 153mm PB Suspenseful, deeply erotic and beautifully written, the bestselling author of Eat Me 384pp returns with a mesmerising novel inspired by the real-life meeting of charismatic Rights: World journalist G.E. Morrison and the sensual, irresistible, American heiress Mae Ruth Rights sold: Hungary Perkins.

‘A highly charged erotic tale’ Vogue.

‘This is … a most engaging, clever and memorable romp through and important recounting of rival imperialist ambitions’ Sydney Morning Herald

‘Witty and erotic’ Weekend Gold Coast Bulletin .

‘Jaivin creates a fully realised, intensely lived-in past… It might be her best work’ The major new novel from the award-winning author of Fresh Fields . A passionate, deeply human novel of poetry and politics

Tait has just been released from a psychiatric institution. With the help of his friend Jim and his wife, he begins to adapt to the outside world. He has received a grant to write poetry -- something his probation officer remains suspicious of -- and is eager to create a settled routine and focus on his work. But his experiences have left him feeling that there are those who understand and celebrate freedom and those -- epitomised by ‘the Regime’ that runs places like the institution where he was incarcerated -- who will do all they can to take freedom away. Tait finds inspiration and solace in things that are ‘quaint and old-fashioned’ -- or QO, as he and Jim refer to it. Certain poets embody these values for Tait, as do -- as tait begins to read Scottish history -- the Jacobites. All this feeds into his poetry. But poetry and poets do not exist in a vacuum, and as the novel builds to its shocking climax, Tait finds himself a target in the middle of a The Fable For All Our violent and angry mob … Lives As with all Peter’s work, there is a strong autobiographical element in this new novel, PETER KOCAN but in taking the raw material of his life he has created a work that is not only beautifully written, by turns passionate, lyrical and humorous, but also touches the August 2010 heart of larger questions of belonging, self-worth, and poetry. This is a novel that is 9780732289928 always sharply observed as it builds to its devastating climax. 234 x 153mm 640pp tbc Praise for The Treatment and The Cure Rights: World ‘A little masterpiece, not only in the history of prison literature, but in that of literature itself ’ The Bulletin ‘The writing is spare, compassionate and enlivened by the wry wit of a born storyteller’ Australian Book Review ‘Compelling throughout, tense and intense’ The Age

All’s fair in love and custody battles - but does the fighting have to be so much fun?

Danny Lawson is struggling to raise her twin sister's orphaned children and hold down a full-time job in a busy A&E department. Then the children's American uncle, Ross Fabello, contacts her out of the blue, under family orders to take the children back to meet their father's family. Ross has money, time and, frankly, a formidable family that will not take no for an answer. So how come a mouthy nurse keeps managing to out-manoeuvre him? Danny’s niece and nephew are all the family she’s got. But, while she’d be the first to admit that Ross’s family seems a little unhinged, she’d still love to have them - minus their sarcastic eldest son, of course. So it’s game on for a titanic battle of the wills . . . and the most unfortunate, irresistible sexual attraction. Knotted In this brilliantly funny and poignant tale of modern love and misadventure, the spoils MICHELLE HOLMAN of war are family. And maybe, just maybe, something more. Fiction October 2009 Divine (2009) 9781869507886 198 x 128mm PB Bonkers (2007) 368pp •Rights sold: Germany Rights: World •Film rights optioned Rights sold: Germany

Michelle Holman’s bestselling first novel, Bonkers , was a comedic hit with women and men of all ages, as has been her second, Divine . Originally from West Auckland, Michelle is a registered nurse who now manages community youth health projects in the Waikato. ‘Palmer … has stepped confidently into the cutting edge psychological thriller genre inhabited by authors of the ilk of Gabrielle Lord and Minette Walters’ Advertiser

Two years have passed since top cop Paul Harrigan walked away from the New South Wales Police Force to be his own man. Since then his life has been a gift and his home with his partner Agent Grace Riordan and their daughter a sanctuary. When a trafficked sex-worker is found brutally murdered in Sydney bushland, it should be just work for Grace. But the murder is too savage. And someone is watching them ― perhaps Harrigan’s old enemies, who want their pound of flesh. When Grace’s boss pushes her into a sting to catch the sex-worker’s murderer, it becomes a question of who is being hunted. Who, in the end, is going to be left looking into the eyes of a killer with no place to hide? Labyrinth of Drowning Suspenseful, smart and chilling; two of Australian crime’s most memorable characters ALEX PALMER are in a race to save themselves from evil that even they have never faced before. 9780732285746 July 2009 •Taut, compelling and intelligent storytelling ― heart-stopping reading, and thrillers with 234 x 153mm PB substance. 384 pp •An award-winning talent: Alex Palmer's first novel, Blood Redemption , won three major Rights: World awards: the 2003 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel, the Canberra Critics Circle Award, and the 2003 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award. The Tattooed Man (2008) has already won the 2008 Canberra Critics Circle Award •An author with real potential –Labyrinth of Drowning is the third compelling novel featuring ongoing characters Paul Harrigan and Grace O’Riordan The Tattooed Man (2008) Blood Redemption ( 2003 ) Rights sold: Germany

A compelling, well-told story with the characters coming to life as the intrigue builds’ Launceston Examiner .

They will trespass the sea for the catch of a lifetime…

Amid the storms and icebergs of the far Southern Ocean, a deadly chase is underway. The Uruguayan-flagged Pescador has been spotted fishing illegally for Patagonian toothfish. An patrol vessel, the Australis, has been given instructions to pursue it ― at any cost. Equally determined, Carlos, the Pescador’s master, sets his escape course south, into a storm.

But the pursuing Australian boat is not the only source of anxiety among the crew of Pescador. Each has his own secrets and ambitions. Pescador’s Wake KATHERINE As the drama unfolds at sea, so too do the stories of the human lives caught in its nets. For JOHNSON the men on board the boats, and their families left behind on shore, there is much at stake. Fiction Pescador’s Wake is a thrilling and moving story that takes its inspiration from the real-life pursuit of an illegal fishing vessel that resulted in the longest chase in maritime history, January 2009 covering 4000 nautical miles. In this gripping debut, Katherine Johnson creates the danger 9780732288266 and the heartbreak of lives at the mercy of the sea, and weaves a compelling story of 198 x 128mm PB betrayal, love, loss and resilience. 400pp Rights: World ‘…Alternates between the experiences of the sailors and their wives back home, combining the intimate lives of the characters-—full of longing, fear and uncertainty—with the larger story of the pursuit. It reminded me of Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm , with its amazing richness of information balanced by personal perspectives. .. Pescador’s Wake is equal parts drama, thriller, adventure, romance and documentary—and it works.’ Australian Bookseller + Publisher , 4-star review The internationally bestselling author of White Gardenia returns with an unforgettable story of a young woman in Florence in the 1930s. A novel of passion, mystery, danger and hope in Mussolini's Italy.

A mysterious stranger known as ‘The Wolf’ leaves an infant with the sisters of Santo Spirito. A tiny silver key hidden in her wrappings is the only clue to the child's identity and so begins a story as intriguing and beautiful as the city of Florence itself . A richly woven tale of passion, love, longing, witchcraft and magic.

•Internationally bestselling author •The brilliant new novel from the bestselling author, set against the danger and romance of Italy in the 1930s and 1940s. • Fall in love with Rosa and she fights to survive -- and searches for the truth of her birth. Tuscan Rose • Unputdownable storytelling, with Belinda's trademark warmth of spirit. BELINDA • Belinda’s books have sold over 300,000 copies in Australia and NZ alone ALEXANDRA Popular Fiction Silver Wattle: In fear for their lives after the sudden death of their mother, Adela and Klara

March 2010 must flee Prague to find refuge with their uncle in Australia. There, Adela becomes a film director at a time when the local industry is starting to feel the competition from Hollywood. 9780732281328 But while success is imminent, the issues of family and an impossible love are never far away. 234 x 153mm pb And ultimately dreams of the silver screen must compete with the bonds of a lifetime … 448pp Rights: World ‘An absorbing story of hope and despair, loyalty and love’ Woman’s Day Rights sold: French

White Gardenia: from the glamorous nightclubs of Shanghai to the harshness of Cold War Soviet Russia in the 1960s; from a desolate island in the Pacific Ocean to a new life in post-war Australia, a mother and daughter must make sacrifices, but is the price too high? Most importantly of all, will they ever find each other again? Rich in incident and historical detail, this is a compelling and beautifully written tale about yearning and forgiveness.

‘A passionate and powerful family saga’ Australian Women’s Weekly Rights sold: UK, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Russia, Greece and Poland. •240,000 copies sold!

Wild Lavender : At 14, Simone Fleurier is wrenched from her home on a Provençal lavender farm and sent to work at the boarding house of her Aunt Augustine in Marseilles. Her life there is hard and impoverished — until she discovers the local music hall. Suddenly Simone has a dream: one day she will be a famous singer and dancer. In Paris, she is drawn to André Blanchard, the son of a powerful French family, and Simone Fleurier becomes the city’s brightest light. But slowly the world around her grows darker. When Nazi troops occupy her beloved city, Simone must make a decision that will prove to her that love, just like wild lavender, can grow in the least likely of places…

'consolidates her position as a great story-teller' Sunday Telegraph Rights sold: Norway, Poland, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, Greece and the UK.

Belinda Alexandra has been published to wide acclaim in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Holland, Poland, Norway and Russia. She is the daughter of a Russian mother and an Australian father and has been an intrepid traveller since her youth. Her love of other cultures is matched by her passion for her home country, Australia. Mak is back … edge of the seat fiction from Australia’s # 1 crime writer

‘Tara Moss has reawakened my passion for [thrillers]...’ Hugh Jackman ‘Glamorous and menacing’ Herald Sun .

Mak Vanderwall ― street-wise former model, graduate in forensic psychology, and now PI ― is back in Sydney and has been hired by a concerned mother to track down her missing nineteen-year-old son. Mak finds that he has run off with a troupe of French performers sweeping through Australia with a modern and alternative performance of the ‘Grand Guignol Theatre of Fear’, which was famous in Paris in the early 1900s. Has he been seduced by the alluring and amoral older French woman who has a terrifying starring role in the show? And what of the rumours of death and murder that have plagued the mysterious troupe for the past decade? Is their shady past fact or fiction? Siren TARA MOSS Meanwhile, Mak is increasingly obsessed with the powerful and ruthless Crime Fiction Cavanagh family ― one of Australia’s richest and most influential families, whom September 2009 she believes got away with murder. And it seems their security advisor Mr White, 9780732285128 and his hit man, Luther Hand, may not have forgotten about Mak either … 234 x 153 mm pb 384 pp •Tara Moss’s books have sold over 514,000 copies in Australia – according to Rights: Translation, Bookscan, she is officially Australia’s number one selling crime writer! excl. Germany • Tara develops Mak's career in each novel ― she has gone from student of and France forensic psychology to graduate to fully fledged PI ― an evolving and exciting heroine

Praise for Tara Moss: ‘Tara Moss is Australia's answer to Patricia Cornwell...’ The Midwest Book Review , USA.

‘A steamy fast-paced romantic thriller...This marks the arrival of a bold new female voice for American crime-fiction fans.’ Publishers Weekly, USA

‘Bestselling Australian author Tara Moss bursts onto the U.S. scene with a fast- paced romantic thriller set in the semi-glamorous midrange modeling business. Moss makes everything seem fresh in this book, from the heroine to the setting. And readers will love the pace of this cat-and-mouse thriller while enjoying the details of the fashion business. An American debut to cheer!’ Barnes & Noble

‘Moss is a meticulous researcher of investigative procedures while writing, earning much praise for the authenticity of her thrillers...she may well become one of the world's best-sellers.’ World Literature Today

Fetish, Split, Covet ‘Fetish is steamy, dark, and grisly...Ms. Moss' characters are firmly drawn, and her chilling plot is a white-knuckle tale of suspense. Lust, passion, and danger & Hit abound in this psycho thriller.’ Affaire de Coeur TARA MOSS Crime Fiction 181x111, 280pp Rights: Born in Victoria, BC, Canada, Tara Moss is an internationally bestselling novelist, Translation, excl. award-winning short story writer and former top model. In her spare time she studies psychology, forensic science, criminology and violent crime. Tara Germany and currently lives in Sydney. France

Rights sold: Russia, Italy, Germany, France, Romania, Czech Republic, Spain, Brazil, Japan, Hungary, Portugal, UK A vivid and compelling story of enduring love and divided families from one of New Zealand’s bestselling historical novelists.

When armed conflict drives a wedge between Maori and Pakeha (white man), not everyone can choose sides easily. For Isla McKinnon, the choices are bitter: taken in by local Maori when her parents are brutally murdered, she has grown to womanhood and taken a Maori husband.

In a thrilling tale of love and loss during the land wars of New Zealand’s colonial era ― when simmering tensions between Maori and the encroaching Pakeha settlements exploded into bloody warfare ― love and trust are put cruelly to the test. Separated from her husband and her family and restored to Auckland society, Isla must learn to survive in both worlds. Inevitably though, she must decide between them, and lose part Isle of Tears of her heart forever. DEBORAH CHALLINOR •Evocative, accurately researched historical fiction that brings vividly to life a little- Historical Fiction known aspect of New Zealand’s dramatic history April 2009 9781869506339 Deborah Challinor is a freelance writer and historian living in Hamilton, and author of 234 x 154 mm the bestselling Children of War trilogy ― Tamar, White Feathers and Blue Smoke ― 416pp and a string of number-one bestsellers, including Fire, Kitty, Union Belle and Amber. Rights: World Deborah has also written several non-fiction titles.

Kitty 9781869506292 Rights sold Kitty: Russian (AST) Amber 9781869506322 Kitty trilogy Book 3 due April 2010

When lovers kiss in the crater of Stromboli, they ignite a fire that will last forever . . .

Vulcanologist Frances Nelson, heroine of Weeping Waters, has moved on from New Zealand and her Maori lover, Tori, to work with an international scientific team assessing the danger levels of Mt Vesuvius, the volcano responsible for the ancient destruction of Pompeii.

Instead of the straightforward scientific task she expects, she finds herself in the midst of political scandal and a web of nepotism on the literally murderous streets of Naples as greed, organized crime, and Il Sistema (the system) fill those same streets with violence and pollute the countryside with toxic waste.

To her horror, she realises her work is being compromised and her team’s findings suppressed by her superiors. A vivid and compelling story unfolds, drenched with flavours of Italy and the spice of dangerous passions. Pliny’s Warning ANNE MARIA In flashback, the tragic events of a fatal explosion on White Island, in the Bay of Plenty, NICHOLSON provide a dramatic emotional counterpoint to the events Frances is dealing with in Italy, Fiction adding a poignance to her budding relationship with a colleague, and providing a romantic July 2009 twist to this fast-paced contemporary novel. 9781869507732 ‘Nicholson has created a unique heroine’ Age . 234 x 153mm, 304pp •The compelling second novel from the NZ #1 bestselling author Rights: World of Weeping Waters (rights sold: Germany)

Anne Maria Nicholson is the Arts Reporter for ABC in Australia, where she is a national media figure, covering high end arts stories. She is also a New Zealander, and of Maori descent. This is her second book. ‘Every one of them comes to me with a story …’

Every woman knows a dress can hold a lifetime of memories, but imagine inheriting thousands that tell their own stories of love, loss, tragedy and joy.

Born in Hong Kong and raised in the US, Charlotte Smith has had her fair share of adventures and fabulous dresses. She lived, worked and partied hard in London, Paris and Monaco before falling madly in love with an Australian park ranger and settling in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney. In between juggling housework and school lunches, Charlotte discovered she had inherited one of the biggest and most sought after private collections of vintage clothing in the world, after her American godmother, a Quaker named Doris Darnell, decided that Charlotte was the ideal caretaker for this priceless collection…. Then the boxes started arriving. Hundreds of them, containing thousands of items of clothing dating from 1790 to 1995… But best of all was Doris’s book of stories, lovely insider tales Dreaming of Dior about the outfits and their owners. CHARLOTTE SMITH In the tradition of Love, Loss and What I Wore , this lavishly illustrated Gift/Memoir book is not a catalogue but instead a delicious gift book full of the November 2009 quirky and evocative stories from women who owned and who wore 9780732290399 these dresses. From laugh-out-loud to poignant and moving, this is 197 x 144mm HB the book every woman, of any age, will want to buy for themselves 288pp, full colour or give as a gift Rights: World Rights sold: North • From Dior and Chanel originals to simple homespun pioneer America dresses, a portrait of dresses through the ages and the women who wore them • Over 12,000 copies sold • Huge online presence – author blog plus major publicity • New book Dreaming of Chanel due November 2010

The thinking person's answer to The Secret…the corporate saboteurs handbook

Ever wondered why, despite your hardest efforts in the office, nothing ever seems to get done? The answer is right here in your hands. Your co-workers, managers, employees and even business partners may be better versed in the eleven principles contained in this book than you might imagine. Arm yourself, and know your enemy.

Want to really understand how to get things done and achieve real results when everything around you seems to conspire against it? Read this little gem and try not to laugh out loud in the office - after all, you don't want them to know you're on to them. An invaluable tool for anyone with a sense of humour and a sharp mind who want to take on the corporate world and win.

How Not To Do Things • Delightfully retro design, great ‘mini’ format RICHARD • Very clever, very funny and very sharp HOLLINGHUM & MARIO MCMILLAN • Attacks the very heart of business paralysis-by-analysis and the mind-numbing techno- Humour speak world of mission statements, team building and expensive consultants September 2009 9781869508036 148 x 105mm PB 64pp Rights: World Australian politics through the eyes of the ultimate insider

He has been one of Australia's most controversial prime-ministers, leading the Liberal Party to victory over four elections and becoming the second-longest serving PM in the country's history. John Winston Howard is the face of the modern Liberal party, famously an economic radical and a social conservative, whose ideology has united many Australians and divided just as many others.

But what most people forget is that long before he became Prime Minster, John Howard was a politician; this book looks back over 30 years in politics, and at the changes he has seen both inside and outside the government in that time.

From his modest beginnings, to his early interest in the Liberal party, to his time in the wilderness of the Coalition's opposition years, to a victory almost no-one had predicted, Lazarus Rising and onto some of the most tumultuous years in our recent history,this is history seen JOHN HOWARD through the eyes of the ultimate insider. Here, Howard tells how he responded on issues Memoir as disparate as gun control, East Timor and the relationship with Indonesia, the aftermath of 9/11, and asylum seekers. He takes us through his life and his motivations and through November 2010 the forces which have changed and shaped both him and the country he ran for eleven 9780732290399 years. 234 x 153mm HB 512pp 3 x 8-page colour pic sections Rights: World

One of Australia’s most respected journalists turns his unflinching gaze to the big issues which affect us all

In his bestselling books, The World From Italy , and The World From Islam , George Negus gave us his unique, 'Australian internationalist' perspective on issues as varied as football and the Muslim faith. Now, in the forthcoming The World From Down Under , he tackles the big issues of the day, the things which concern, perplex and provoke us.

In a ‘journalist’s journal’ George takes on climate change, poverty, war, indigenous affairs, politics, philanthropy, the role of women - and some lighter stuff. He talks about how Australia is regarded by the rest of the world and how the rest of the world is seen by us. He draws on his own travels and his extensive journalistic background, and he brings in some of the things he's learned from the world's movers and shakers.

A ‘fair dinkum’ insight into what’s right and wrong, good and bad, left, right, fair and unfair, The World From Down equal and unequal, sustainable and unsustainable, tolerant and intolerant, about Australia. Under GEORGE NEGUS Author note: WARNING At no point banging away at this sceptical view of The World From Current Affairs Down Under did the author's tongue leave his cheek. November 2010 9780732276249 George Negus is one of Australian television’s most respected journalists. He is the 234 x 153mm PB author of Across The Red Unknown, By George !, and the bestselling The World From Italy 320pp and The World From Islam . George and his partner, Kirsty, and their two children live in 3 x 8-page colour pic Balmain, Sydney sections Rights: World A true tale of shipwreck and survival…

One woman, forty-seven men and a three-year-old boy, shipwrecked on a tiny sub- Antarctic island. For seven months they eat albatross and burn penguin skins for fuel, before a passing whaler picks them up. The woman was my great-great-great-grandmother Fanny Wordsworth. She and her son Charlie were migrating from Scotland to New Zealand. Two months out, their ship struck a rock in the Roaring 40s, halfway between Antarctica and Madagascar…

In 1875, a Scottish clipper, the Strathmore, sailed from London destined for New Zealand. Three months later after rounding the rugged Cape of South Africa, and now far to the south, the ship struck rocks and sank. Half the passengers and crew on board managed to make it to one of Antarctica's inhospitable Crozet Islands. There they remained stranded for over seven months.

This Barren Rock Writer Sylvie Haisman discovered that her great-great-grandfather Charlie Wordsworth and SYLVIE HAISMAN his mother, Fanny, were two of the survivors. Fascinated, she dug up old photos and found Biography diaries and letters that they'd written immediately following their rescue. Over 130 years June 2010 later, Sylvie imagines how it would have been for her distant relatives, and portrays a vivid 9780733325557 tale of courage, pluck and patience in the sub Antarctic in this compelling true story of 234 x 153mm pb survival and the effects of deprivation on the human spirit. 256pp TBC • Gripping historical narrative non-fiction, carefully researched from primary sources. Rights: World • A strong story and fabulous cast of characters combine with a wealth of detail about ships and travel in the nineteenth century. • Personal element to the story - the main character, Fanny Wordsworth, is the author's great-great-great grandmother.

A riveting true adventure of a year in Antarctica, from the first woman to lead an Antarctic research station.

Antarctica calls to people. They often cannot articulate why. It's a place where you can experience temperatures ranging from -40 in winter to about 2 degrees in summer. It’s windy, too, with prolonged periods of 50-knot winds. Yet people are drawn to it. When Diana got the job as station leader at Mawson in 1988, aged 38, she was the first woman to have led this isolated community. This intimate account of her year as manager is full of adventure and the challenges of working with a mostly male team of glaciologists, physicists, biologists and tradies, as they unite to deal with life in the face of what they call the 'A Factor'. We read about what it’s like to work and live in an isolated community for many long months; about the excitement of being in such an amazing place, observing the wildlife and gathering essential scientific data; and the incredible team of dogs that were so integral to their life. There are some pretty hairy life-threatening situations to boot. It was a tough but amazingly rewarding experience, which Diana brings to life in her wonderful, The Ice Beneath My captivating story. Feet As Diana says, “What Antarctica means to me is a feeling of living for the moment, a DIANA PATTERSON feeling of incredible contentment and inner peace. A feeling, once experienced, you want Memoir to live it again and again.” February 2010 9780733324239 Diana Patterson was the first woman in the world to manage an Antarctic Research 234 x 153mm pb Station and is now a motivational speaker and involved in Antarctic tourism. A committed 256pp conservationist, she has held a number of senior management and advisory roles with an Rights: World environmental focus and keeps active through alpine and cross country skiing, bushwalking and mountain biking. The life and times of supergroup founder, Greg Page

Greg Page will always be synonymous with the children’s supergroup The Wiggles, and is forever imprinted in our memory banks as the original ‛Yellow Wiggle’. Sadly‚ though‚ in 2006 Greg was forced to walk away from his stellar career‚ unable to continue because of a mystery illness.

Leaving The Wiggles was a painful and life-altering decision. As a founding member he had devoted over fifteen years to their creation and was instrumental in their phenomenal worldwide success‚ which even included performing for the children of such megastars as John Travolta‚ Sarah Jessica Parker‚ Shaquille O’Neal and Cate Blanchett‚ and leading the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

It took years for Greg’s condition - - to be correctly diagnosed‚ which often saw him suffering from bouts of acute dizziness that left him unable to stand‚ speak or think without great difficulty. The lack of a diagnosis also left him suffering from Greg Page: The depression; a frustrating and disillusioning experience for someone who had always led Yellow Wiggle Story such an active life‚ performing on a daily basis. GREG PAGE WITH Correctly diagnosed and medicated‚ Greg is now leading a relatively healthy life and NEIL CADIGAN concentrating on getting back to his first love - music. Biography September 2010 • Candid biography of founding member of the kids' super group, The Wiggles 9780732289263 • High profile talent with a well known story with widespread appeal 234 x 153 mm pb 352pp Rights: World

An affectionate and hilarious tribute to the childhood of another era

'It still amazes me what they allowed us to do without their supervision or help, while remaining deeply loving parents. Climb trees, from the age of four or five? No problems. Drive the tractor from the age of six or seven onwards? Good luck to you. Haul on the hoist to pull the bins filled with oranges off the trailer? Yes. Take your bike out on the Pacific Highway and ride to school? Just be careful, but okay . . . Their rough reckoning was that if we thought we could do something, we probably could - and if we thought we couldn’t do something, we probably still could, if we applied ourselves.'

Peter FitzSimons’ account of growing up on the rural outskirts of Sydney in the 1960s is first and foremost a tribute to family. But it is also a salute to times and generations past, when praise was understated but love unstinting, when work was hard and values clear, A Simpler Time when people stood by each other in adversity. PETER FITZSIMONS Above all, in the FitzSimons home, days were for doing. In this rollicking and often hilarious memoir, Peter describes a childhood of mischief, camaraderie, eccentric characters, Memoir drama - and constant love and generosity. The childhood of a simpler time. August 2010 9780732288044 234 x 153mm pb Peter FitzSimons is a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald. He is the author of nearly twenty books - including biographies of Charles Kingsford Smith, 384pp Nancy Wake, Kim Beazley, Nene King, Nick Farr-Jones, Steve Waugh and John Eales - Rights: World and was Australia’s bestselling non-fiction writer in 2001, 2004 and 2006. An irresistible companion to Jill Roe's award-winning biography Stella Miles Franklin

The first of these letters was written at Brindabella in 1887, ten years before Miles Franklin started her wonderfully rebellious novel My Brilliant Career that propelled her out of the bush and on to Sydney and the world. These letters follow her career to Chicago, where she worked for the Women’s Trade Union League, to the Balkans, where she was an orderly during the First World War, to London where she resumed her writing, and her return home in the 1930s. After nearly thirty years away, Miles Franklin’s letters became, more than ever, a sustaining factor in her life. Living alone after her mother’s death in 1938, she shared with ‘her congenials’ -- friends in England, Europe, the USA and Australia -- experiences, memories and, above all, her commitment to . The last letter in this collection was written only sixteen days before her death. As well as Miles Franklin’s own correspondence -- witty, acerbic, provocative -- the My Congenials: Miles selection includes letters from her life-long friends, such as Alice Henry and Vida Franklins and Friends Goldstein, Katharine Susannah Pritchard, Dymphna Cusack and Beatrice Davis. in Letters Selected and edited by Jill Roe, the letters crackle with surprises of a life richly lived, and JILL ROE read with the pleasure and intensity of biography. Biography/Letters Originally published in two volumes, this new edition includes a fresh introduction and August 2010 extensive revisions to notes and biographical data. 9780732280932 Jill Roe , AO, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Modern History at Macquarie 234 x 153mm University, Sydney. She has written numerous papers on Miles Franklin’s life and work. In 736pp 2008 she published Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography , the first full and authoritative Rights: World biography of this fascinating literary figure, which won the 2009 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for History.

This superbly produced illustrated edition of the award-winning book offers an equally powerful and moving visual record of the Australian war in Vietnam

This superb illustrated edition brings together for the first time some of the most memorable, shocking and rare images of the Vietnam war with the award-winning text. Above all, it captures in unforgettable images the little-reported 'Australian war' and sets this extraordinary visual legacy in its proper context by sharing the stories behind the photographs. Not only are the big Australian battles - at Long Tan, Coral and Balmoral - bought to light, but also the struggle at home and how politicians of all stripes utterly failed the troops, almost half of who were conscripted on the throw of a dice. Thousands of servicemen returned to Australia to be met with hostility or indifference. Having voted overwhelmingly to send the soldier to war, the Australian people then turned and condemned him for going. Vietnam: Illustrated Whatever one's view of the war, the Australian soldiers, sailors and airmen did their duty - with courage and, in the main, restraint. Indeed, as this classic account shows, the edition Australian people shared responsibility for this tragic episode that sealed the fate of 50,000 Paul Ham servicemen and women. Military History This is their story - told for the first time using some of the finest photographs of the longest August 2010 major war of the 20th century. 9780732289669 233 x 180mm hb Paul Ham is the author of the highly acclaimed Kokoda (HarperCollins, 2004) and the 832pp Australia correspondent of the London Sunday Times. He was born and educated in illustrated throughout Australia and lives in Sydney, having spent several years working in Britain as a journalist Rights: World and publisher. The stories of the great Australian motorbike champions. For the love of freedom, speed and adrenalin. To be the quickest of all.

Australia’s love affair with motorcycle racing and its fearless heroes was meant to be.

Two things have made it so enticing. The first is the inherent love of freedom, speed and adrenalin - that wild feeling of the wind whipping your face as you fight to take the machine as fast as it can go. The second is the ingrained Australian desire to test ourselves against the rest of the world - to be the quickest of all.

Australia has produced twenty-four world champions in everything from Superbikes to Supercross. Names like Gardner, Doohan, Beattie, Stoner, Reed and Vermeulen have forged an impressive tradition. Their stories - the building of Australia’s motorbike-racing tradition - are tales of great characters, extraordinary courage, bizarre dangers and The Riders: Motorbike passionate victories. Legends MARK BERETTA AND Mark Beretta has won international awards for sports commentary and reporting. He’s NEIL CADIGAN also the veteran reporter, commentator and host of four Olympic Games. During the Motor Sports 1980s, before turning his attention to sports journalism and broadcasting, he was a ten- August 2010 time Australian water-skiing champion. 9780732283704 234 x 153mm PB 400pp Rights: World

Take an entertaining and occasionally terrifying ride alongside Julian Mather …

For as long as he could remember Julian Mather wanted to be a photojournalist. Then he got side-tracked. And while military sniper seemed like a good idea at the time, he found the telescopic sights of his rifle were starting to look more and more like a movie camera, and so he fell in love with film-making. It wasn’t quite photojournalism but it was better than killing people. Shooting people with a camera was more, well, fun. And of course, life as an ABC TV cameraman was less life-threatening -- wasn’t it? From filming explosions in Los Alamos, to harrowing car journeys in Kosovo, from performing magic tricks for kids to hanging from helicopters with his camera on his shoulder, Julian goes from one exciting and perilous adventure to another. And then there's the people he meets along the way: care workers and strippers, refugees and nuclear scientists, and the many strange and wonderful character he works with, both in the outback and the corridors of that great national institution, the ABC. It's a bloody The Second Best Job great job, even if it is the second best job in the world. in the World JULIAN MATHER • A funny and entertaining look at the life of an extremely likeable TV cameraman who Travel/ Memoir really has been everywhere, and done everything. May 2010 •Strong storytelling 9780733325267 234 x 153mm 256pp 2 x 8-page colour pic Julian Mather is a cameraman on Australian Story and has also worked on Four Corners, sections Foreign Correspondent and many more ABC programs. He wrote a chapter of Australian Rights: World Story: Off the Record (ABC Books 2007) and revealed himself as a storyteller of some flair and talent. He lives in Brisbane. The Retriever This is the controversial and often heart-rending story of the private investigator KEITH SCHAFFERIUS & who has reunited over a hundred abducted children with the desperate parent left behind. No parent should miss it; all will be moved and challenged by it. GRANTLEE KIEZE Memoir Clandestine meetings with CIA contacts, forged passports, the threat of being thrown in jail October 2010 – all part of a day's work for the Australian private investigator who has reunited over a 9780733325410 hundred abducted children with the desperate parent left behind... 234 x 153mm PB 288pp Australia has the highest per capita rate of parental child abductions in the world, with Rights: World about 150 Australian children abducted each year, according to official figures. For more than three decades, Keith Schafferius has specialised in child retrieval cases, slipping into countries like Poland, Yemen and the Philippines to retrieve children taken overseas against court orders after the breakup of their parents’ marriage.

Over the years Keith has built up a vast array of contacts, paid thousands of dollars in bribes to officials and been in many scary situations, including being shot at and pursued by police. This is Keith’s remarkable, at times heart-rending, story - of his background as an airforceman and ASIO spy, and of the incredible and often unbelievable retrieval missions that have taken him to all parts of the world in his bid to reunite families torn apart by parental child abduction.

Keith Schafferius is Australia’s longest-serving child retrieval specialist. He lives in Queensland. Grantlee Kieza has held senior editorial positions at The Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and The Courier-Mail, and contributed cover stories for Inside Sport and Alpha . He is also the author of seven books including a biography of Jeff Fenech .

An intelligent, humorous travel tale that is also the story of a tender father-son relationship

Somehow, I convinced myself it was a good idea. Somehow, I convinced myself that it was do-able. Now I shake my head... We drove through the Gobi desert in Mongolia in a snowstorm, avoided an Iranian sedan doing cartwheels on the freeway near Tehran, wove around the shores of the Caspian Sea and navigated the desert in Turkmenistan. We learned to say thank you in thirty languages and dispensed fluffy koalas to traumatised small children in obscure mountain pockets from Laos to Kurdistan. We kicked an Aussie Rules footy across borders and taught customs officers how to do a drop-punt from Timor Leste to Uzbekistan. We ate bark and ox blood and worms and pigs ears and eel and curries so hot we nearly fell off our chairs. We bribed police in five countries, ignored parking tickets in another six and got lost pretty much everywhere. From Here to There We squabbled over food and farting, snoring and sneezing. JON FAINE &JACK It was total folly and it was the best thing you can ever do. I would do it again and I would FAINE not recommend it to anyone. Travel/ Memoir August 2010 In April 2008, Jon Faine and his son Jack closed their door on their Melbourne home and 9780733323874 leaving jobs, studies, family and friends, took six months and went overland to London in 250 x 192mm their trusty 4-wheel-drive. This intelligent and funny recount of the countries they visited, people they met and trouble they got into, is also the story of a tender father-son 192pppp relationship. Full colour throughout For ten years, Jon Faine has delivered thought-provoking and provocative radio to Rights: World Victorians on his top-rating ABC Radio 774 show. He is renowned for his intelligence and wit, as well as his incisive interview style. He has also broadcast on Radio National and ABC TV. The persuasive art of advertising and its evil ways...

Did you know that Pizza Hut once spent millions of dollars trying to burn its logo onto the face of the moon? That authors are being paid to mention brands in novels? That Popes used to do celebrity endorsements? Advertising is a strange and fascinating beast, forever searching out new ways to get to us. The Gruen Transfer looks at how advertising works and more importantly, how it works on The Gruen Transfer us. JON CASIMIR The spin-off book from this top-rating ABC-TV program takes up where the conversations Advertising/Pop on the show leave off, venturing inside the corridors of the persuasion industry to find out Culture how we are targeted, understood and encouraged to buy. November 2010 9780733327872 The industry rule says the average westerner is exposed to 3000 commercial messages a 260 x 216mm day, brands colonising our brainspace. When we reach for the detergent in the 208pp supermarket aisle, how do we know our thoughts are our own ? Full colour throughout (* The Gruen Transfer: named after Victor Gruen, the guy who designed the very first shopping mall. The term describes that split second when the mall's intentionally confusing Rights: World layout makes our eyes glaze and our jaws slacken... the moment when we forget what we came for and become impulse buyers.)

Jon Casimir writes on popular culture and technology and has been published in most major Australian newspapers and magazines. He is currently producing The Gruen Transfer for Andrew Denton’s company Zapruder’s Other Films and was a producer for Enough Rope on ABC television. Jon was the driving force behind the Enough Rope books and is also the author of Naomi’s Story , the diary of the first years of his daughter’s life. He lives and works in Sydney.

A child's-eye view of life, love and chocolate cake

Kids tell it like it is. And they know some very useful stuff indeed. Such as the fact that you can’t hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk. Or it’s never a good idea to try to baptise a cat. You just can’t argue with these things.

Our children are bursting to share commonsense advice that will help us grown-ups get through the day with a smile on our faces. Smart, warm, telling and funny , The World According To Kids captures a beautiful sense of the world seen from knee height.

Some of the contributors to this book have just learned to talk, others have been at it for a decade or so, but they all have something to say that will brighten your day. The The World sayings here will make you smile – and laugh out loud. Along with plenty of laughs there According to are grains of true wisdom about friendship and caring, pain and joy. Kids SALLY COLLINGS These quotes have been submitted by parents worldwide – because the wisdom of Gift/Inspiration children is universal. November 2009 9780732289768 Sally Collings worked in book publishing in London and Sydney for almost twenty years. 160 x 140mm pb Now based in Brisbane and a mother of two, she is a freelance writer and editor. Her first 160pp b&w illos book, Sophie's Journey , was published in April 2007 and became an immediate Rights: World bestseller. You won't forget this book! The Memory Book is packed with useful information and practical strategies to help keep your memory in tip-top shape.

There’s nothing more frustrating than your memory letting you down. Perhaps you forget what you meant to do the minute you get up to do it, or you bump into your neighbours at the shops and you can’t remember their names, or you can’t think of a word that’s on the tip of your tongue.

Up-to-date with all the latest research and understanding about the brain, The Memory Book is an indispensable guide that explains how memory works and why it fails us, and is brimming with practical tips and techniques to improve your memory and help you stay fresh and alert in the years ahead.

Includes: •The differences between normal ageing and dementia The Memory Book •Whether old brains can form new connections JUDITH & JANET WILES •The best diet for promoting a good memory •Whether doing a crossword or going for a 20-minute walk is better for boosting memory Self-help/ Personal •Why maintaining an active social life is so important for a healthy memory Development •Tricks for remembering people’s names in social situations March 2010 9780733325359 Fully updated edition – first edition sold more than 10,000 copies and rights sold to BPI 198 x 128mm pb India, Korea, Russia 288pp Rights: World Janet Wiles is an internationally renowned authority on the functioning of the brain, and a professor at the University of Queensland. Her mother Judith Wiles is a lecturer in behavioural science .

What is happiness and how can we achieve it? Does the advice of happiness ‘experts’ really work?

Propelled by a desire to overcome the depression she feels after a personal tragedy, and armed with a journalist’s critical eye, Sophie Scott investigates just what happiness is and the best way to achieve it. She interviews a range of local and international happiness experts - including Harvard University’s Professor Tal Ben Shahar; the ‘world’s happiest man’, Buddhist monk Mathieu Ricard; and psychologist Dr Anthony Kidman - on everything from the importance of relationships, the power of positive thinking, the benefits of gratitude and altruism, meditation, spirituality and mindfulness, and of exercise and the mind-body connection.

Then Sophie tries it all out. For a month for every solution suggested by the experts, Sophie ‘roadtests’ her way to happiness. Roadtesting •A unique and compelling combination of personal experience and author’s renowned Happiness ability to make complex ideas accessible. SOPHIE SCOTT • Includes the latest happiness science, theories and strategies, distilled for readers in a Personal highly approachable way. Development •Strong emphasis on practical strategies – AND short cuts too – so that all readers will find something they can actively do to improve their life. March 2010 9780733325540 Sophie Scott is the national medical reporter for the ABC. In 2005, Sophie received the 210 x 135mm pb Media award at the Research Australia 'Thank You' Day Awards in recognition of her 304 pp ability to communicate complex information in a way that the general community can easily Rights: World understand. In 2004, she won the Australian Museum Eureka award for medical reporting. Her first book, 'Live a Longer Life', was published in 2007. A guide to being your own best friend

From the bestselling author of Living With It comes a breakthrough work that is the culmination of years of searching for the ‘bottom line’ of the malaise which affects not only those who suffer with anxiety and depression but also human beings in general in ever-increasing numbers. …The malaise is not discriminating: it equally infects world leaders and ordinary citizens. What is this sickness? It is a lack of joy. It means existing instead of living, finding oneself empty and afraid, angry, blaming or bored senseless. It is marrying the wrong spouse, staying in the job you hate, eating the wrong foods, becoming addicted, being lonely, falling ill, feeling lost. But take heart, there is a cure, which is free, powerful and accessible to all - LOVE YOURSELF.

And coming in June 2010: Get Over It Got difficulties? Get over it... A resource to help people feel more grounded in their ability to I Love Me face the difficulties in their lives. It’s about facing up to the past BEV AISBETT and, well, getting over it. Motivational / Self help Backlist rights sold : Chinese (Simple) (Beijing Publishing House); February 2010 Chinese (Complex) (Elegant Books), Korean (Myjing Jun), 9780732289010 Spanish (Obelisco/ Manantial), Japanese (Daiwa Shobo) 198 x 128mm pb Bev Aisbett has published widely in the area of learning to cope 160pp with panic attacks, and is a trained counsellor. Her other books Rights: World include Living With It, Living It Up and Letting It Go on anxiety; and Taming the Black Dog on depression.

Body and behaviour mysteries explained by the ‘Wizard of Odd’

The latest addition to Dr Stephen Juan’s internationally bestselling Odd series. Filled with more curious and strange facts and information about our fascinating bodies, there will be something to interest everyone --- and everybody.

If you want to know if there is a limit to how many times the human body can almost die, the necessity of morning sickness or if robots are likely to ever rule the earth, than this is the book for you. Covering body parts from head to toe and for the first time ever, a chapter on behaviour, this is definitely one for popular science enthusiasts, or simply those with a thirsty curious mind …

•Dr Juan is a surprise #1 bestseller in Russia! •Rights to backlist titles sold to : USA (Andrews McMeel), UK (Harper), German (DTV), Spanish (Grupo Anaya), Greek (George Vassiliou), Czech (Ivo Zelezny), Chinese Simple Can Kissing Make Characters (Shanghai Translation), Chinese Complex Characters (Rye Field), Hungary (Magyar Konyvklub), Thai (Matichon) Japanese (Mita Industrial), Indonesian (Gramedia), You Live Longer? Dutch (Het Spectrum), Russia (Ripol) DR STEPHEN JUAN Pop Science March 2010 Dr Stephen Juan is an anthropologist and educator who is best known for his award- 9780732290504 winning newspaper and magazine articles and for his TV and radio presentations. Dr 234 x 153mm pb Juan grew up in California and for more than 30 years has taught at the University of 320pp Sydney where he is the Ashley Montagu Fellow in the Faculty of Education and Social Rights: World Work. This is the fifth book he has written for HarperCollins Australia. An essential household reference that shows you how to identify and remove stains cheaply and effectively Using her encyclopaedic knowledge of stain-fighting formulas and chemical reactions, Shannon guides you through all you need to know to be able to diagnose and treat stains safely and effectively. You will soon be an expert stain detective, and just like Shannon you’ll be able to: •work out the surface that’s been stained •identify the stain •determine which solvents are going to work •decide what method to use •know what to do if you stuff it up!

In a clear and conversational style, Shannon explains the uses for each of the items in your essential cleaning kit, and shares loads of her tried-and-true grime-fighting Stainless formulas. SHANNON LUSH & TRENT HAYES Practical/Lifestyle May 2010 9780733327919 180 x 128mm pb 288 pp b&w illos Rights: World

Kids CAN clean with Shannon Lush, every parent’s best friend.

It’s true -- kids CAN clean! And if anybody knows how to make it happen, it’s the Domestic Guru, Shannon Lush. This illustrated book for children covers everything from removing the squashed banana in your schoolbag, to tidying up your bedroom, personal hygiene (or why you should take your finger OUT OF YOUR NOSE), to cleaning up after your friends. Cleaning can be fun with Shannon Lush and her simple but effective tips for children of all ages. Includes photos and illustrations and written in a lively, bubbly style to appeal to children aged 7 and over.

Kids Can Clean • Previous books have sold over 650,000 copies in Australia and New Zealand. SHANNON LUSH •Spotless rights sold to US, UK, Italy, Brazil, Norway, Slovenia Practical / Parenting December 2009 9780733324130 178 x 128mm pb 96pp Rights: World Never stumped for an answer to a domestic disaster, radio personality, wife, mother and grandmother Shannon Lush became a ‘surprise’ celebrity in late 2005 with the publication of her first book Spotless , co-written with Jennifer Fleming. Shannon is now a household name. She appears regularly on tv and radio programs in Australia and New Zealand and she contributes advice columns to several newspapers and magazines.

Trent Hayes is a writer, business coach and consultant He’s back…

Dr Karl has taken on Santa Claus, atom bombs, ‘friendly’ dolphins and ‘killer’ whales, meteors, black holes, string theory and camel’s humps. In his 27 mega-selling books, he demolishes myths, tells readers how to spot bogus science and advises readers to be wise, sceptical and to always challenge authority. Now, in his 28 th book he continues his crusade to keep the world a rational place by answering vital questions like ‘Are white cats deaf?’ and ‘Will lemon juice make you slimmer?’

If you like your science fun and unpredictable, don’t miss this new addition to the Dr Karl library.

•Perfect gift for fathers and uncles who want to be absolute know-it-alls •Perfect for young adults who want to make learning fun Never Mind the Bullocks, •Impeccably researched and with an appealing sense of humour here's the Science •#1 celebrity science author in Australia. But these books have appeal beyond the DR KARL KRUSZELNICKI author’s profile – quirkily written and appealingly illustrated, this series stands alone too. Popular Science November 2009 Dr Karl’s previous book, Science is Golden has sold 63,000 copies, Please Explain 234 x 153 mm 70,000 copies, It Ain’t Necessarily So… Bro 62,000 , and Great Mythconceptions 256 pp sold almost 50,000 copies in two months over the Christmas season . Dr Karl has b/w illustrations also set the Australian Record for the most copies sold and signed in one signing throughout (1162 books); and in November 2008 smashed the World Record for the most back- Rights: World to-back live radio interviews!

Dr Karl Kruszelnicki is the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at the University of Sydney. He appears on several ABC radio stations, the BBC, and is a regular on Australian TV and UK radio. Dr Karl has been awarded an Honour for his work as a science communicator. Dr Karl's appointment as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) is the latest in a long list of accolades for the former scientist, engineer and paediatric emergency doctor, including an Ig Nobel Prize for his belly button lint research. Karl, who describes himself as ‘very mediocre as a scientist but pretty good at talking about it’, says his real achievements have been in making a difference to people's lives, and getting teenagers interested in science.

Dr Karl appears weekly on both commercial and BBC radio in the UK – his regular science phone-in on BBC Radio 5 live's Up All Night programme features Dr Karl answering the audience’s science questions with the help of presenter Rhod Sharp on BBC Radio 5 live. He also has a weekly half-hour spot on London’s X-FM, from 7 to 7.30am on Alex Zane’s breakfast show.

Science Is Golden, Backlist rights sold: USA (Andrews McMeel), Indonesian (BIP), Chinese Complex Please Explain, (Athena Press – Great Mythconceptions), Portuguese (Editora Fundamento), Great Mythconceptions, German (Piper Verlag), Bulgarian (Bard), Polish (Bauer-Weltbild), Hungary Dis Information, (Partvonal Kiado) , Korea (Goldenbough) , India (HarperCollins India) It Ain’t Necessarily So DR KARL KRUSZELNICKI Popular Science November 2004/ 2005 / 2006 / 2007/ 2008 234 x 153 mm 256 pp b/w illustrations throughout Rights: World Put on your space suit and prepare for take-off - you’re going to Mars and everything you need to know about how to survive on the red planet is in this book

For thousands of years, humans have been fascinated by Mars, our closest neighbour in the solar system. The world’s leading Mars researchers predict that within the next thirty years, a manned mission will be technically possible. But what do you need to know to survive the red planet?

Covering every aspect of the journey and settlement of Mars, this book answers questions such as: •What is the quickest route to Mars, and what will I need to pack? •What will my new home look like and can I open the windows? •How will I get around if there are no roads and no cars? Mars: A Survival •Will my muscles start to weaken in the lower-gravity environment? Guide •If I’m away from the base and I need to go to the toilet, what then? GUY MURPHY •Will a 30+ sunscreen be enough protection from Martian radiation? Popular Science 9780733324895 Mars is a must-have guide for any aspiring space traveller. July 2010 210 x 135mm 256pp Guy Murphy is the founder of the Mars Society Australia and served as its President Rights: World between 2000 and 2005. He has participated in a number of scientific expeditions to Mars-like environments in outback South Australia and has spoken at Mars conferences in Australia, Europe and the United States. He lives in Melbourne.

‘In my mind’s eye I can still see everything. Most of all, I remember clearly the face of a frightened 15-year-old staring back at me in the mirror. This is the last image I have of myself . . . ’

This is the inspiring story of Rob Matthews, whose lack of sight must not be confused with a lack of vision. Matthews inherited a congenital condition which left him blind by the age of 20. Instead of feeling sorry for himself, he turned to running.

Rob’s view is not that he’s blind; it’s just that he can’t see. His tenacity and talent have helped him win 29 international gold medals including eight Paralympic gold medals. He has set 22 world records and received an MBE from the Queen. He has cycled around Europe and driven a racing car at high speed; he skis on snow and on water, and plays golf, football and cricket. Running Blind ROB MATTHEWS But it hasn’t been an easy run. Running Blind deals honestly with the highs and lows of Autobiography/Sport living life in the dark. Rob talks about meeting and marrying his first wife, only to cruelly lose her to a blockage in the brain, then pulling himself out of despair and daring to try 9781869508012 again to find love and start a family. October 2009 234 x 153mm pb Running Blind is the unexpected story of how one man achieved his dreams - as an 272pp athlete, as a husband and as a father. He truly lives by his motto: Anything is possible if Rights: World you set your mind to it.

Rob (Bob) Matthews , MBE, went blind as a teenager. Determined to lead as normal a life as possible, he became a runner and represented Great Britain for many years as a gold medal winning Paralympian. Rob and his wife, Sarah, who is a Kiwi, returned to Auckland to raise their young family. In the tradition of Marley and Me, the further adventures of Lucky: seafarer, cat chaser, lady-killer, dog

In his first book, Lucky For Me, journalist Frank Robson described how he and his partner Leisa Scott rescued Lucky, an enigmatic, cream coloured terrier from Death Row, and watched him become the third member of their high-spirited, independent, boat-mad family.

Now, in this equally charming follow up, Frank relates how a curse seems to hover over the three of them as they try to set out on their long-planned, open-ended cruise. Instead of the adventure of a lifetime, there is bad weather outside, bad blood on board, and bad luck besetting them at every turn.

But when the trio do finally escape land, there are beautiful islands to explore and plenty of escapades to be had with a motley crew of colourful characters, crocodiles, feral cats, Lucky Goes To Sea sharks, snakes, and even a new love interest for Lucky. FRANK ROBSON Memoir Lucky Goes To Sea will take you on an unforgettable journey, with a four-legged hero November 2009 guaranteed to make you laugh and steal your heart. 9780732285050 198 X 128mm 240pp B&w pics throughout Rights: World

How it all started… Lucky for Me

At eighteen months of age, Lucky, a white terrier, was dropped off at a vet’s clinic in Queensland, abandoned by his owners and near-paralysed from ticks and other terrors. A week from being put down he was adopted by Frank Robson and his partner, Leisa. From the start the fluffy new member of the household proved an enigma, displaying a 12-snort vocabulary, an ability to climb trees (all the better to chase parrots) and a disdain for suburbia. In this full-blooded account of friendship between man and dog, Robson puzzles on the sentient being who trotted into his life and taught him about survival, mateship and the joys of an independent spirit.

• In the bestselling tradition of Marley and Me and From Baghdad with Love • Two wonderful books about the friendship between man and dog • Uplifting, a great book to give to dog lovers • www.luckyforme.com.au website • 28,000 copies sold in Australia!

Lucky for Me Rights sold: German, Polish, Brazilian, Chinese (simplified characters) FRANK ROBSON Memoir Born in New Zealand, Frank Robson spent an itinerate, jack-of-all-trades existence in October 2007 Australia before becoming a journalist. He has worked for numerous publications, from 9780732285050 The Melbourne Truth to Time , run a freelance press agency, made documentaries, and 198 X 128mm, 208pp written two previous books, Dare to be Different (on Queensland oddballs), and a novel, B&w pics throughout Food of Fools. Robson has won two Walkley Awards for feature writing and in recent Rights: World years has been a full-time writer with Good Weekend magazine. Why are boys so noisy? Why do they break things? Why are they fascinated with things that can burn, blind and cripple them? Why do they lose the gift of speech and get so smelly at adolescence?

All this and more is revealed, with some surprising conclusions about what we think we know about the differences between boys and girls, and a few tilts at sacred cows. With practical examples and case studies to help all mothers raising boys, there’s particular comfort for single mothers worried about the lack of men in their son’s lives. Whether you’re a mum, a harassed grandparent, or a guardian raising boys who may not be your sons but are your boys all the same, this book’s for you.

If you want effective strategies instead of platitudes, real solutions instead of catch-phrases, and a book with chapters on ‘What mums want’, ‘It turns out Mothers Raising Dad’s not lazy, it’s in his genes’, ‘Throwing like a girl’, ‘Lion taming: managing Sons boys’ behaviour’, ‘How to be a cool mum’ and ‘Trouble in Shoe-topia’, then NIGEL LATTA welcome to the real world of raising boys. Parenting 9781869507848 Coming in March 2010: Fathers Raising Daughters August 2009 210 x 135mm pb Respected clinical psychologist, bestselling author, and 224pp father of two boys of his own, Nigel Latta specializes Rights: World in working with children with behavioural problems, from simple to severe.

How do you raise well -behaved children in an increasingly badly behaved world? For harassed parents struggling to understand why they end up screaming at their kids and tearing their hair out trying to make them understand that their behaviour has inevitable consequences, here is the ultimate guidebook! Practical, commonsense answers, easy to understand explanations and, most importantly, realistic strategies and appropriate behavioural modification tools that work, from a family therapist who has seen almost everything there is to see in the range of child behaviours – and knows all about ‘arsenic hour’. Written in down-to-earth language with many original and workable options for you to try, this book needs to be handed out at birth. An essential toolkit for the modern parent who knows it can and should be better than it is. Rights Sold: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Hebrew, Chinese Before your kids (complex characters) drive you crazy – ** Revised TV tie-in edition due April 2010, retitled Politically Incorrect read this! Parenting 9780732287382 Before your And now, before your teenagers drive you crazy… teenagers drive Once you’ve negotiated the terrors of toddlerdom and the perils of primary you crazy, read school you think you’ve got a pretty good handle on this parenting thing – then this! along comes Mother Nature with her horrible hormones and suddenly you’re so 9781869507138 far behind square one you’re starting to wonder if this raging bundle of Parenting contradictions screaming at you was switched in the night by evil aliens. 210 x 135mm pb With his now trademark humour and pragmatic common sense approach, Nigel 224pp debunks the politically correct nightmare of perfect parenting and argues for sanity first – yours – and reclaiming the ground parents have lost in the great Rights: World ‘I’m my child’s best friend’ debacle. A pragmatic, no-punches-pulled style with realistic strategies for stressed parents

Coming in 2011: Surviving High Maintenance Kids A handbook for mothers on the challenge of raising teenage boys.

How do you raise boys to men in a world where trouble beckons at every turn? How do you make sure they learn the ‘right’ lessons, stay out of danger, find a path to follow? How do you ensure they’ll be OK? From the results of the Good Man Project, and her own experience as a mother and prison manager who sees the end result when the process goes badly wrong, Celia has applied her laser-sharp insight and no-nonsense perception to the issues of adolescent boys.

There are lessons for parents, and particularly mothers, that will be uncomfortable, but which need to be discussed and debated if we are to stem the tide of wasted lives, when young men fall off the bridge of adolescence before they become the men they could be.

He’ll Be OK: Growing •Level-headed, cut to the bone insight into an issue we can no longer afford to ignore Gorgeous Boys into • 50,000 copies sold in New Zealand alone, plus 70,000+ in Australia. Good Men • Rights Sold: Dutch (Tirion); UK (HarperCollins) CELIA LASHLIE Parenting Coming in October 2010 : The Power Of Mothers March 2007 A hard hitting look at our troubled society, the intergenerational cycle of crime and 9780732284503 criminal families and the women who have the power to change things for the better - if we 210 x 135 mm 264 pp let them. Rights: World

An original and knowledgeable take on child rearing, using cutting -edge research it will show you how you can be the best possible parent and make sure that your child becomes the best possible person they can be.

Just what capacities does a child need to become the person - happy, resilient and wise - they want to be? And just what do we need to do to help our child be that person? Is it nature or nurture? Should parents focus on good behaviour, motivation or skill development? How important are education, eating, sleep and manners? How big a part does temperament play in who we become as adults? And how do we learn to be the best possible parents?

In this ground-breaking book, Jo Jackson King looks at three main branches of early child development research and finds that they all come up with the same answer under different terminology: what a child needs to be successful is to be able to manage stress, stay focussed, and navigate both their own and other people’s emotions. To be, in short, Raising the Best emotionally 'savvy'. A quality that will stay with them throughout their lives if given to them Possible Child early. JO JACKSON-KING But how to instil this in your child? This book explains the best approach to helping your Parenting child become the best, happiest, and most successful person they can be. July 2010 9780733316302 • Cutting edge research presents a strong challenge to current parenting titles. 210 x 135 mm Jo Jackson King lives on a remote station at Austin Downs WA. In addition to being an 264 pp TBC author, she is a farmer and physical therapist who works with remote communities in the Rights: World bush. Jo also broadcasts regularly on ABC Local Radio on the subject of parenting. She has three children. Her last book, The Station at Austin Downs, was a bestseller. Four friends, one block of land, no power tools

‘One day,’ Philip said, ‘I’d like to build something bigger ... Like a house. We could just buy a block of land, you know, the four of us, and have a go.’

It was just an idea. Then it started to take shape. In this frank, funny and thought- provoking memoir, Richard Glover describes how he and his friend Philip and their partners built a house in the bush on weekends. It was a huge and exhausting undertaking … not least because they decided to use mudbricks.

In the end it took three years simply to make the bricks. As for the house itself …

But the process gave Richard the opportunity to examine things he had never quite reconciled to himself -- big things like what it means to be a man, the nature of male relationships, fatherhood -- and to challenge himself in the kind of blokey environment he had rejected.

The Mud House Above all, the mud house proved that even if it ‘wasn’t the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel’ RICHARD GLOVER there is nothing like the satisfaction of making something with your own hands. Memoir October 2009 •For everyone who's dreamed of getting away from it all on a country block on the 9780732290290 weekend, building their own home, getting to know the locals ...or just had a go at putting up a garden shed. 210 x 135mm • A frank, funny and fresh memoir about what it means to be a man… 240 pp timely and poignant Rights: World • Richard’s previous memoir, Desperate Husbands , has sold to Italy and Poland •‘Go ahead and open a page at random -- you ′ll laugh out loud.’ Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors on Desperate Husbands •Coming in October 2010 News From Nowhere – more wickedly funny stories of everyday life

7 steps to easing aches and looking great

How are you feeling right now? Do you FEEL GOOD? Or are you experiencing annoying niggles and aches, not feeling on top of your game – and perhaps horrified at the sight of your own reflection.

Physiotherapist Anna-Louise Bouvier and Jennifer Fleming have developed the 21 Day Feel Good Body Program. This simple seven-step program will show you how to sit, stand, walk and breathe correctly, how to release tension that builds in your body and mind, and how to stay active and healthy at any age.

•Incorporates the latest research •Written in a light and humorous style The FEEL GOOD Body •THE must-have book to help you feel good – and look good too! ANNA-LOUISE BOUVIER & JENNIFER FLEMMING Health Anna-Louise Bouvier is a physiotherapist who developed the successful ‘Physiocise’ 9780732289621 program. She is a regular guest on Australian radio, writes for magazines and speaks at conferences. Jennifer Fleming is a writer, media consultant and ABC Radio March 2010 broadcaster. She is the co-author of the runaway bestsellers Spotless and 190 x 128mm pb Speedcleaning . 256pp Rights: World excl US, Canada, Germany A hilarious guide to the real meanings behind the endless cliches that we are bombarded with by real estate agents, banks, lawyers, doctors -- even lovers -- on a daily basis.

Cut through the 'doublespeak‘! “We set the benchmark” = we were the first one to do something so stupid “Our company uses a consultative process with our employees” = we tell them what to think “He often challenges conventional wisdom” = he’s a lunatic who won’t do what he’s told

Have you ever wondered what the ads in the real estate section really mean when they describe a property as having 'period detailing' or 'uninterrupted views' or 'huge potential‘? Or what is really going on in your partner's head when they say 'We need to talk' or 'Do whatever you want’? And what about when your boss encourages you to 'think outside the square' or tells you that they 'value your input'? Cliches are so much a part of our everyday The Secret Language communications that we rarely stop to think about the meaning behind the tumble of words. In The Secret Language John S. Croucher grabs these expressions by the throat, JOHN S CROUCHER shakes them about a bit, and then squeezes out the truth. With chapters on Real Estate, Language/Humour Motor Vehicles, Law and Order, Business, Retail, Medicine and Relationships, this is the January 2010 perfect book for dipping into when you want to have a chuckle. 9780733325533 • The perfect Christmas gift for fans of Lynne Truss’s Eats, Shoots And Leaves and Don 198 x 128mm pb Watson’s Weasel Words 176pp Rights: World John S. Croucher is Professor of Statistics at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, and one of Australia's most prominent statisticians. Author of 15 books, he is well known for his weekly newspaper column 'Number Crunch' in the Sydney Morning Herald and The age.

Morsels of English language history

•Why can we fall in love but not in hate? •What do codswallop and poppycock share? •Why not one house and two hice? •How come we scream blue murder, sing the blues and turn the air blue?

In Gift Of The Gob Professor of Linguistics Kate Burridge explores our language and the everlasting tug-of-love that exists between ‘proper’ English and its wayward relation slang. She investigates the place where all that is ‘wrong’, ‘bad’ or ‘sloppy’ slips into everyday use, before becoming ‘proper’ in its turn!

Join Kate on a fascinating journey through English language history, as she untangles words and their meanings, and unearths the centuries of spectacular changes that have transformed the very core of our language.

These mouth-filling morsels of English language history demonstrate the poetic ingenuity Gift of the Gob of common language, and celebrate its remarkable inventiveness. KATE BURRIDGE Language • Kate Burridge’s previous title Blooming English has sold over 8,000 copies, and sold to March 2010 CUP in the UK 9780733324048 •A witty and eclectic collection of observations and information about English and its 210 x 135mm pb peculiarities. 320pp • Covers everything from ‘slanguage’ and pronunciation to the mysteries of English Rights: World spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Kate Burridge is a prominent linguist who is currently the Professor of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. She is a regular presenter of language segments on ABC Radio and appears weekly as a panelist on ABC TV's Can We Help? A beginner’s guide to the decline and fall of the Soviet Union

Kim Traill arrived in the Soviet Union in 1990 with a smattering of local vocabulary, a love of classical Russian music and a swag of youthful idealism about the great Communist experiment. It would take some time for the scales to fall from her eyes. Along the way she would discover a Russia few tourists know about, a country both surprising and brutal. She would eat some of the world’s worst food (especially for a vegetarian), encounter some of the globe’s scariest toilets, meet some highly hospitable people – and many seriously dodgy ones – and follow the lives, aspirations and changing fortunes of a wide spectrum of friends and acquaintances: Olga, a former patriot, who embraces religion and her job at Ikea; Nadia, a Jewish friend whose life has been turned upside down by the State; Tina, who married one of Russia’s flamboyant new billionaires; and Rafael, the enigmatic Tatar who cuts hair and dreams of being president of his own republic. Red Square Blues From their lives and from her own adventures, she forms an eye-opening picture of the KIM TRAILL crumbling empire, as it lurches from dark power to glasnost’s ‘open society’ and back Travel/ Memoir/ again. Current Affairs A lively account of a decade spent discovering Russia, bad food, fatalist mentality, September 2009 thuggish billionaires and all 9780732285661 234 x 153 mm PB Freelance film-maker Kim Traill got her start in documentary making with Race Around 400pp the World, where she was runner-up. She has worked for SBS’s Dateline and ABC’s 1 x 16-page colour Foreign Correspondent where she specialised in stories about the Soviet Union. Kim pic section has spent much of the past 16 years travelling through Eastern Europe, Afghanistan Rights: World and the US. She lives in Sydney with her son, Nik.

‘Endlessly observant and curious; real passion underpins his writing… This is one of the best’ Sun Herald

From carpet selling to shepherding – one man's chaotic adventures in Turkey ...

When Brendan Shanahan returned to Turkey after two years to catch up with old friends he found much had changed. Not only was the country itself transforming but the lives of his Turkish friends seemed to be mirroring the growing pains of a nation on the cusp of its biggest transformation since independence. After travelling extensively in the wilds of the east – where, among other things, he found himself in the middle of a gunfight, was propositioned by shepherds and swam to Armenia in his underpants – Brendan eventually agreed to run his friend’s carpet shop in Istanbul. With only the dubious help of his carpet-dealer friend, a lovable but frequently demanding bi-polar drug addict, the results were often disastrous, frequently hilarious and occasionally poignant. By the end In Turkey I am of his travels he was broke and owned more carpets than floor, but had come to a deeper understanding both of a country he loved and the people he loved in it. Beautiful BRENDAN SHANAHAN ‘ Travel/Memoir ‘Rich with warmth, humour and historical context, and populated by a cast of colourful 9780732285562 characters…’ Courier Mail June 2008 ‘Shanahan is a lovely writer completely in command of his subject’ Sunday Telegraph 28 234 x 53mm PB ‘Often laugh-out-loud funny’ Sydney Morning Herald 368pp ‘Issues of life, death, violence, sexual propositions and what constitutes an Rights: World uncomfortable silence are thoroughly and hilariously explored’ Independent Weekly Got a problem that’s keeping you awake at night? David Bogan will show you how to solve it.

David Bogan has seen every type of dispute you could imagine, and has worked out how to get the people, banks, hospitals or companies involved to move forward and reach agreement. He shows you how to interview and negotiate to get the information you need, and how to understand what the other side needs and wants to hear.

David draws on his years of experience to give plenty of practical examples throughout the book to bring his advice to life. An accessible, practical and essential handbook to resolving conflict, both in personal life and within organisations.

David Bogan is an international mediator and conflict manager, operating across several jurisdictions. He has taken part in What's Keeping You international panels and conferences and in 2006 joined the Awake at Night? steering committee of the US based International Coalition of DAVID BOGAN Concerned Mediators. David has been successfully engaged in Motivational /Self settling major health, fraud, class actions and long running disputes, help including a civil murder claim. February 2010 9781869507800 Featuring a foreword and peer-reviewed by Dr Luis Miguel Dias , president of the 210 x 135mm (TBC) Interdisciplinary Center for Conflict Management (based in Mexico City) and the author 272pp (TBC) of more than 100 articles and 15 books. Rights: World

An indispensable guide to life for modern women of all ages.

Packed with brilliant practical wisdom about every area of a busy woman's life - health and fitness, beauty, time management, dealing with bureaucracy and much more !

Includes three of the best: • exercises for firm upper arms; • day-time moisturisers; • ways to de-stress at your desk; • ideas for a clutter-free kitchen; • techniques to improve your memory; • gifts for people you don't know well; • strategies to beat the blues; • suggestions for hiring a lawyer; • ways to keep your relationship passionate; Three of the Best •recipes for picnics and dinner parties; CANDACE LEWIS/ •natural remedies for insomnia; MARGARET •tips on internet shopping O’SULLIVAN • and much much more… Self help December 2008 Now there is no need to rip all those useful articles from newspapers and magazines 9780733323645 (which you can never find when you need them) all that information is right here. From 178 x 128mm the time you wake up in the morning until the time you go to bed at night, Three Of The 432pp Best has got you covered. Rights: World Candace Lewis is a lawyer, mother and qualified fitness trainer. Margaret O'Sullivan is a journalist who has worked for many years in newspapers and women's magazines. Lose weight and save money at the same time!

A twist on the usual exercise and diet book - we’re getting fatter and poorer by the day. We are slap bang in the middle of a financial crisis, and an obesity epidemic. But is there a common solution? Could an abdominal crunch save us from the credit crunch? Is it possible to save money and save your health at the same time?

Tight Arse offers practical advice and tips on how to lose weight on a budget. It covers diet, nutrition and exercise, and includes some tasty recipes. Each tip details how much weight you could potentially lose, and how much money you could potentially save on an annual basis.

Andrew Cate is a health, fitness and nutrition consultant who runs his own personal training studio. He was a weight-loss coach for the successful Gutbusters health program The Tight Arse Diet for many years. He writes for several magazines and websites, and can be heard regularly on ABC Local Radio. ANDREW CATE Health January 2010 9780733327773 210 x 135mm pb 160pp Rights: World

A book on pregnancy loss, dispelling the myths about miscarriage and stillbirth.

When a pregnancy fails, grieving parents often wonder why no one mentioned it could happen. Yet one in every four women will experience miscarriage or stillbirth.

Mother of two and journalist Zoe Taylor has survived repeated pregnancy losses. In this book, she shines a light on every aspect of this topic: •The experience of pregnancy loss and the desire for answers •What experts know about causes and risk factors, and new areas of research •Strategies for facing a world that poorly understands pregnancy loss •Trying again; pregnancy after a loss •Deciding to stop trying •Tips on how to support people going through pregnancy loss

Pregnancy Loss Pregnancy Loss: Surviving Miscarriage and Stillbirth is a book of courage, hope and survival. It will help all people touched by loss, including parents, partners, friends, family, Zoe Taylor researchers, doctors and carers. Health February 2010 9780732288662 Zoe Taylor is a UK-trained journalist with over ten years' experience as a health writer. 210 x 135mm pb She was Health Reporter for the London Evening Standard then joined the Australian Daily 304pp Telegraph, where she writes a popular weekly column . She lives near Sydney with her Rights: World husband and two children. This is her first book. Everything the backyard gardener needs to design and then build the perfect garden - without the expense.

This garden design book will give the backyard gardener the practical skills, knowledge and construction ability to pull together a sound design for their garden. Using ready-made plans or by drawing your own, you can form a design that will stand the test of time and help you to keep within your budget. Experienced gardener and landscape designer Phil Dudman has broken down the design process into a series of simple steps that you can follow at you own pace in your own time. Learn how to draft your design, develop your style and draw a master plan and planting plan. Using professional design secrets, to help you on your way, you can also learn how to install drainage, build retaining walls, steps pergolas, compost bins and lay pavers and pathways. Down-To-Earth Guide And when the construction is done, The Down-to-earth Guide shows you how to establish to Garden Design a new lawn, improve your soil and irrigation and how to plant to ensure that your new PHIL DUDMAN garden flourishes. Gardening With a foreword by Peter Cundall, this is an essential guide for any backyard gardener who September 2010 wants to improve the look of their garden and achieve great design, without the expense. 9780733323454 250 x 190mm Phil Dudman was the presenter and producer of the award-winning ABC Local Radio 224pp network Garden Guru Files and currently presents the weekly ‘Good Gardening’ show on Full colour ABC Local Radio, North Coast. A horticulturist, designer and landscaper, Phil was also the Rights: World author of Garden Guru and Garden Guru 2 from ABC Books.

The ultimate gardener's guides to organic pest control

BUG features information on: •The principles of organic pest control •Organic pest control methods •An ID guide to pests •Good bugs •Pest control table including a list of common pests and control methods •Recipes for concocting your organic treatments).

WEED arms you with the knowledge to do battle in the garden without resorting to harmful sprays. With chapters on organic methods of control, weed identification and remedies, as well as handy reference tables and exquisite line drawings, this book is an outstanding gardening addition to any gardener’s library.

The information in both titles is completely up to date, with case studies and anecdotes, Bug! and packed with sound, research-based information – all in convenient small formats, January 2010 packed with B&W line illustrations, and written in a friendly, down-to earth yet 9780733325014 knowledgeable and informative style. Weed! Tim Marshall has been at the forefront of the Australian organic industry for 25 years, as September 2010 an innovator, grower, inspector, trainer and writer. He is a contributor to Gardening 9780733327742 Australia magazine, and author of ABC Books Recycle Your Garden and TIM MARSHALL Composting: The Ultimate Organic Guide To Recycling Your Garden . Gardening 178 x 128mm pb 224pp Rights: World

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